Ernest Hemingway
American novelist (1899 to 1961), also a short-story writer and journalist; awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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No writer who knows of great writers who never received the Nobel Prize can accept it other than with humility
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility.
nobelprize.orgSaid 10 Dec 1954This on korrents
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No writer who knows of great writers who never received the Nobel Prize can accept it other than with humility
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility.
Banquet speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 Said 10 Dec 1954
What a writer puts into the work eventually becomes clear, and that plus craft decides whether the writer endures or is forgotten
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
Banquet speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 Said 10 Dec 1954
Writing at its best is a lonely life, and writers' organizations ease the loneliness but probably do not improve the writing
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing.
Banquet speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 Said 10 Dec 1954
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A writer who gains public stature by shedding loneliness often produces worse work, because the work is done alone
He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
Banquet speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 Said 10 Dec 1954
Each book should be a new attempt at something beyond reach, never done before or tried by others and failed
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed.
Banquet speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 Said 10 Dec 1954
Because great writers already exist, a writer is driven past what has been done, to where no one can help
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
Banquet speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 Said 10 Dec 1954
A writer should write what they have to say, not speak it
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
Banquet speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 Said 10 Dec 1954
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